Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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Top 5: SpaceX, drone projects, vi tips, and more

Thanks, Don. You're too kind!

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Power(Shell) to the people

I'm a Microsoft employee (speaking on my own behalf and not representing the company), and I haven't run Windows on a machine I own for over a decade. I'm perfectly happy with my Linux setup, too. You're right that Microsoft realized that it's approach to open source was wrong. But to say that there's no real reason to mix the two is to completely ignore the fact that many people do run mixed environments (whether by choice or by mandate from their employer). Being able to use the same tools across multiple platforms is valuable to system administrators. You're right that not everyone wants to blend Windows with their preferred OS. But obviously some people do.